Do-It-Yourself fundraising is the perfect way to raise money while doing the things you love most. Use your hobbies, passions and interests as a focus for your fundraising to create a unique and special activity or event to raise vital funds for and awareness of Prostate Cancer Research. Bake, sing, play football, draw, drive, tee off; anything goes with DIY!
Use your hobby
Use your passions and interests for doing good!
Do the activities you love the most whilst raising money to help create better outcomes for prostate cancer patients and their families. With a special twist, anything can be fundraiser – and the more out there, the better.
Host your own event
Use your contacts and networks to put on an event to remember.
Fundraise with your group
Work together in your group, society or club to raise money and awareness.
We’d be over the moon if your group hosted a fundraising event or activity, or chose us as their charity of the year. We’ll provide you with all the support you need, from fundraising materials, publicity on our social media and the chance to have a speaker at your event. Get in touch to let us know how we can best support your group.
How your money makes a difference
Your fundraising helps us to support our research and ultimately transform lives. We could not continue to fund our research without you, and without our research we cannot achieve better outcomes for men with prostate cancer and their families.
Our research
We currently fund numerous research projects, all of which aim to develop more effective treatments for and better understandings of prostate cancer. Following our ecosystem report, we are determined to fund projects that explore current gaps in knowledge and treatment to move the field forward and reach new and better treatments sooner.
Find out more about our specific research projects in our research area.
Our scientists
We fund scientists across multiple locations and at all stages of their career. We care about the barriers faced by researchers and recognize the importance of nurturing and encouraging innovation and collaboration, to ensure that research is moving as effectively as possible to reach better outcomes for patients sooner.
By fundraising for us, you are supporting scientists at all stages of their research journey and ensuring they are treated with respect, offered flexibility and given the support they deserve.
You can find out more about our scientists in our research area.
Patient stories
We listen to patients and fund the research that will lead to outcomes that matter most to them, so that our research is entirely patient-focused. By supporting PCR, you are supporting patients who are sharing their stories and experiences and helping to fund the research that matters most to them.
Find out more about our patient voice panel and hear from patients who have been impacted by PCR’s work.
Where your money goes
With your support, we will provide scientists with the space, flexibility, and environment that helps turn great ideas into successful treatments.
How much could you raise for our PCR scientists? Did you know that –
$100 would fund materials to grow a cell colony.
$350 would fund 6 months of essential lab consumables.
$1,600 would fund a box of new antibodies to test.
$14,000 would fund a live imaging microscope camera.
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